Stiff penalties: The offensive daubing at the Nurburgring (Picture: Twitter)

Sometimes a story just falls nicely into the lap of Oddballs, and this is one of those.

Germany’s iconic Nurburgring, home of motor racing since the 1920s, has been defaced by vandals who daubed a penis onto the track at the notorious Brunnchen corner.

The incident is believed to have happened on Saturday night, with the word ‘Danish’ written alongside the genitalia – apparently aimed at a Danish driver who has previously used the track.

The incident left German police to call in a paint-stripping machine to remove the artwork and dry out the surface – an operation which took hours and left the Nurburgring out of use to ‘tourist rides’ on Sunday.

Although graffiti is common at the German track, nothing of this nature has been attempted before and the culprits remain out of reach of the long arm of the law.